All, One week last call on the OGSA-BES spec was announced about 10 days ago. This has sparked a flurry of interesting discussion. However, I think it time that the group try to reign in these discussions, and decide what if anything needs to be done to the document before submitting it to the OGF editor. I see some cause for urgency, as the OGSA-HPCP Profile specification, which references OGSA-BES, is already in GFSG review and on-track to emerge for public comment as a proposed recommendation in two weeks' time. The sub-threads I have noticed are: 1. A discussion about authorship and contributors, which should not be hard for grown-ups to reach closure on. Remember that the limit of 5 on authors is purely advisory. I recommend giving credit where credit is due, and if you still have more than 5 authors, submit anyway, making it the GFSG's problem, not the group's. 2. A discussion about the right granularity for BES faults. I don't detect any profound controversy here (just a bunch of smart people trying to get it right), but on the other hand, I don't detect a clear consensus on how to proceed. 3. Some arcane discussion, apparently stillborn, on Weak Similarity and the state model, which I don't presume to understand 4. A set of questions from Joseph Bester, of which some appear to have been answered, and some don't. May I suggest that the group has a call to try to close off these loose ends? And in the meantime, could anyone who still has issues with the current draft propose some concrete text? Stephen ==================== Stephen M. Pickles ==================== Technical Director, National Grid Service Manchester Computing Room G49.1, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester tel: +44 161 275 5974 Oxford Road fax: +44 161 275 6800 Manchester M13 9PL stephen.pickles@manchester.ac.uk